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great Christmas fat market ; the West Highland- 

 ers_, black, dun, and red, and fierce- eyed, even in 

 their subjection ; the Border Leicesters, which can 

 keep both Cotswold and Lincoln at bay ; the blackface 

 from whose three-year-old veins " the gravy runs out 

 like brandy" ; and the ruddle-coated, game-headed 

 Cheviots, part of that great Clan Hornie wdiich Bry- 

 don, like a Lowland Chieftain, will lead in due 

 season to the links of Inverness, and invite Suther- 

 landshire to the wager of battle. 



The contrast between it and its humble prede- 

 cessor of ^32 was brought most vividly before us in 

 a public-house ingle near Coldstream, where w^e 

 waited, deep in oatcake and ale, for the train. Our 

 informant had seen " baith Kelseys," and was all 

 for progress. " First one,^^ he observed, "was like 

 a bit of a country tent pitten up ; nothing round 

 aboot it — -same kind of thing, bless your heart, but 

 not gitten up in tlie same style. Things are varra 

 much improved since yon ; feeding^s gat up to a dif- 

 ferent pitch. I saw a lot of bad Ayrshire coos among 

 them, but varra nice pigs ; I canna mind on whose 

 they were. It^s drawn a deal of money noe doot. 

 He's a varra clever body, they tell me, that Mr. Hall 

 Maxwell." 



Now that great congress had vanished, the park was 

 green once more, and the gateways built up. Hence 

 we strove to revive the memories of Lanercost and 

 Beeswing on Berry Moss to which " oval course of 

 exactly a mile and a quarter, with a straight run of 



